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...eyes, hear with my ears, and have my own heart." Which leaves only one man who can meet Karajan's standards for a director of any opera that he conducts: Karajan himself. And so, for the production of Wagner's Die Walküre last week at Salzburg's new Easter Festival, Karajan had no trouble getting both assignments. After all, the creator, financial wizard and guiding spirit of the entire festival was Karajan...
...music and drama festival in Scotland, tailored after the Salzburg Festival. He launched the Edinburgh Festival in 1947, and overnight it became one of the biggest and most successful arts pageants anywhere in the world. The master manager and logistician also became adept at dealing with the peculiar brand of hysteria that so often swirls within musicians' souls. Once an Italian orchestra threatened a walkout because there were no coat hangers in the dressing rooms. Bing merely explained that the Scots have this quaint old custom of hanging their coats on the backs of chairs. Accordingly, when...
...market when the New York Herald Tribune was closed down for good during the city's newspaper strike, Drama Critic Walter Kerr, 53, who had held his post for 15 years, was surely the least worried about the future. While spending the summer lecturing at the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, he was besieged with offers. Frank Conniff, editor of the still unpublished World Journal Tribune, even flew over to try to recruit him. But when the critic finally made up his mind last week, his decision was not surprising: Kerr chose the New York Times...
CARL WEINRICH: MOZART SONATAS FOR ORGAN AND ORCHESTRA (RCA Victor). Mozart served a short stint as official organist for the Archbishop of Salzburg. His 17 organ sonatas, though intended as insertions in the Mass, are less religious works than graceful incidental music. Organist Weinrich understands this, and gives a luminous, flexible performance...
Edinburgh may have more class and Salzburg more tradition, but no festival has a longer season or a larger attendance, or offers a wider variety of music than the public concerts this summer in New York City's Central Park. The programs run from Memorial Day to mid-September, have so far drawn 400,000 people-including a record 80,000 at a single New York Philharmonic performance-who have heard jazz, band music, folk-rock, opera, orchestral music, and even a Dutch street organ huffing Strauss waltzes. None of this activity absolutely guarantees that the park will...